Kosovo court sentences 3 ethnic Serbs to life, 30 years in prison over 2023 clash
Two defendants received life terms and a third got 30 years after a 2023 gunbattle that killed four people, officials said.
- A Kosovo court sentenced two ethnic Serbs to life imprisonment and another to 30 years for a 2023 clash with police that killed four people.
- The men were convicted of attempting to separate northern Kosovo from Kosovo and unite it with Serbia through violent acts.
- The 2023 clash involved heavily armed Serb gunmen setting up barricades and engaging in a gunbattle with Kosovo police in Banjska village.
- Milan Radoicic, the group's leader with political ties in Serbia, remains at large despite international pressure.
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In Kosovo, three Serb separatists have been sentenced to long prison terms for terrorism.
For the attack on the police station in Pristina in 2023, Spasojević and Tolić were sentenced to life imprisonment, and Maksimović to 30 years in prison.
The president of the Serbian Progressive Party and adviser to the president of Serbia on regional issues, Miloš Vučević, announced that the Serbian authorities will not calm down until the Serbs convicted in the first instance for the clashes in Banjska are freed today, and until "justice reaches all those who wronged the Serbian race in Kosovo and Metohija".
Kosovo court jails three men for 2023 terror attack near Serbia's border
PRISTINA, April 24 - A court in Pristina on Friday convicted three men on terrorism charges over a 2023 attack in northern Kosovo when Serb gunmen stormed a village and battled police in a shootout that killed four people, including a police officer. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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